Hello, Just as the signs <, >, + and −, it would be nice if also other signs such as ≤ (less-than or equal to, 2264) or ⇒ (rightwards double arrow, 21D2) worked in text mode and not only in math mode. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/
You should just be able to drop in the math code as such: \starttext This is an example of the $\le$ operator. \stoptext You will get the proper encoding from the PDF generated. You could theoretically do: \def\LE{$\le$} \starttext This is an example of the \LE\ operator. \stoptext The reason why this is so is because the operators are designed to look like proper math typesetting, what usually does not happen in many situations with normal text. TeX was DEK's solution to typesetting mathematically-oriented books and he would be unlikely to introduce a counter-intuitive concept. Charles On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 22:18 +0200, Peter Münster wrote:
Hello,
Just as the signs <, >, + and −, it would be nice if also other signs such as ≤ (less-than or equal to, 2264) or ⇒ (rightwards double arrow, 21D2) worked in text mode and not only in math mode.
Cheers, Peter
Peter Münster wrote:
Hello,
Just as the signs <, >, + and −, it would be nice if also other signs such as ≤ (less-than or equal to, 2264) or ⇒ (rightwards double arrow, 21D2) worked in text mode and not only in math mode.
i suppose we're talking of mkiv here ... (1) if the font has the symbol, it should work already (2) if the font lacks the symbol, we can add a virtual one but then the problem is .. where to get it from; ok, i can harvest lm fonts but i'd like to wait till we have proper open type math fonts (project in progress) so that we can simply overlay fonts (already kind of possible in mkiv) (3) we can set up a complicated system of active characters and macros that check is something is in the font and otherwise fall back to something that might be in another font ... i'm trying to get away from this approach; signaling missing glyphs is something on the agenda for 0.40 so ... eventually ... yes (temporary workarounds may show up but only if i really need it in a project since this is no stuff for pet-projects) i'm in the process of setting up math in mkiv and this is something that taco, aditya and i will discuss at the upcoming context conference (feel free to join in there) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Sat, Jun 07 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
i'm in the process of setting up math in mkiv and this is something that taco, aditya and i will discuss at the upcoming context conference (feel free to join in there)
Thanks for considering my request. Much to my regret I won't come to the conference (due to lack of time), but I really hope to be able to come to one of the next ones. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/
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